Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...contest had been very close up to this time with the ball first on one end of the field and then changing to the other. It was, therefore, no surprise when Harvard forced the ball on Princeton ground after the kick off by Willard. Good kicking and the continued impetuosity of the rushers soon made it dangerous for Princeton to make any slips. It was just at this time that one of her men did so. Baker. standing on the lines, muffed the ball after a long kick by Willard, and Thayer immediately touched it down at one side. Peabody...
Princeton and Harvard. The best of feelings exist between these two colleges and it is with pleasure that we look forward to the friendly contest which will take place this afternoon on Jarvis Field. The Princeton eleven is said to be a strong one, but we hope for the best. This is the only championship game in Cambridge this year and we sincerely hope that every man will not only be there himself, but have all his friends there to cheer lustily for Harvard in this great contest...
...Yale the opinion seems to be that the contest with Princeton will be very close and exciting...
...combat, when once begun, was marked by a commendable willingness on each side to cease hostilities. On the whole we think the participants in this rush deserve the thanks of the college. They treated us to the spectacle of a hundred men reluctantly fighting with one another in a contest in which each party was ashamed of its cause, and by this exhibition they have effectually killed off the last of the juvenile customs which remain to us from the old provincial Harvard...
...better wrestlers than parsons. Certainly some of them made a greater figure in the ring, and a more successful one. than in the pulpit. At the end of last century and even at the beginning of the present one, it was thought no disgrace to "the cloth" to contest wrestling bouts in the north country. There was no money- that bane of all sports- to compete for. He wrestled for honor alone, and if "t' priest could thraw t' shepherd" more likely were his sermons to find their way to the hearts of his rustic parishioners. One clergyman, when...